Badges

Link to me

Feedjit

Search WyBlog

The Party of "No"

Technorati and Me

Technorati is indexing me again! They had to make a code change to fix
the problem with my blog getting stuck in their queue. Kudos to Eric M.
and the guys at
GetSatisfaction.com
where they have "community powered support for Technorati".

Well, they're "sorta, kinda" indexing me anyway. It's on a 24 hour tape
delay or something. So I never get picked up by Memeorandum because they
pull from Technorati and Technorati has stuff I posted yesterday
listed as my latest blog entry. And that's old news to Memeorandum.

Wankers.

Fair Use Notice

"This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been
specifically authorized by the copyright owner. It is being made available in
an effort to advance the understanding of environmental, political, human
rights, economic, democracy, scientific, social issues, etc. It is believed
that this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided
for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C.
Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit for
research and educational purposes."

Anyone here remember a guy who ran for president and
promised to get us out of Afghanistan? You know, something about
undoing all the damage wrought by that evil warmonger Bush? It was in all the
papers.

Anyway, yesterday President Dronekiller released the
specifics of his new security agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai,
and darn if it doesn't keep U.S. troops in harm's way until after 2024.

You read that right, Two Thousand Twenty Four.

If a draft agreement between the Obama administration and President Hamid
Karzai of Afghanistan is finalized, U.S. troops will remain in that country
indefinitely — instead of being withdrawn at the end of 2014, as the
administration has said.

This is a confession of failure. America's longest war is nowhere near its end.

The draft agreement
(PDF)
dated July 25, 2013, which was obtained by Richard Engel of
NBC News, states,

This Agreement shall enter into force on January 1, 2015.… It shall
remain in force until the end of 2024 and beyond, unless terminated
pursuant to paragraph 4 of this Article [requiring two years written notice].
[Emphasis added.]

Under the proposed agreement, the U.S. government would continue to train, arm,
and assist the Afghan military. "In addition," the unsigned document continues,
"the Parties acknowledge that continued U.S. military operations to defeat
al-Qaeda and its affiliates may be appropriate and agree to continue their
close cooperation and coordination toward that end."

Oh, and we (ie, the taxpayers) get to keep picking up the tab for the Afghan
army too. Because otherwise they might start to hate us, or something.

The only conclusion I can make is, that Obama fellow really likes
war. Well, except when he has to use it to
protect Americans.

Curiously though, all those anti-war demonstrators who came out against Bush
aren't protesting Obama's endless wars. I'm sure there's a rational explanation
for that. Oh, right, they're just a bunch of partisan tools.

Barack Obama, the first guy to adorn himself with a Nobel Peace Prize while
perpetually waging war. Yes Toto, we definitely aren't in Kansas anymore.